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A. S'GHIND LER. Ta-pping Guard.

No. 224,231. Patented Feb. 3, I880.

; UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ALEXANDER SOHINDLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TAPPlNG-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,231, dated.February 3, 1880.

Application filed October 2?, 1879. I

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Scrum)- LER,of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Tapping-Guards, which improvement is fully setforth in th following specification, reference being had to theaccompaview thereof.

nying drawings, in which Figure 1 showsmy improved guard as it appearswhen in practical use.

to driving the latter into the tap-hole of a barrel, with its chamf'erededge facing the barrel, and the faucet is then driven home, the

collar is caused to impinge on the barrel, and being adapted to spreadat its inner or chamfered end, it yields to the pressure of the fancctwithout being ei'ipanded to any great extent, so that while it proves aneffective barrier to the escape of liquid around-the faucet it isextremely durable.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a Fig. 2 is an end collar,composing a guard of the nature of my invention, the same being beveledor chamfered on its inner edge at one end, as at G. If, when a barrelcontaining beer or other liquid is to be tapped, the collar A is slippedover the end of the faucet, as shown in Fig. 1, and the faucet is thendriven intothe tap-hole of the barrel, the collar is brought in contactwith the barrel and becomes spread at its inner or chamfered end, theeffect of which is that the escape of liquid is prevented in the bestpossible manner and the degree of expansion to which the collar issubjected by the faucet is reduced to a minimum. 7 I am aware thattapping-guards have been made in form of a flanged nipple having ab]straight or plain inner edge, and ldo not claim such but What I claim asnew, and desire to secure by LettersPaten t, is- I v As a newmanufacture, a tapping-guard consisting of an india-rubber collar formedin one piece and-beveled at one end, on its inner edge, to taperoutwardly toward said end, whereby it is adapted to yield or spread atsuch end, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim therforegoing I 60 hereunto set myhand andseal this 20th day of October, 1879.

ALEXANDER SOHINDLER. [L. s.] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, Q

OTTO HUFELAND.

